Parenting Quotes by Veronica Roth

“My mother was Dauntless.”

— Veronica Roth

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

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“I think my mother could be beautiful, in a different world.”

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“My father was a difficult man. But he was also a good one.”

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“But my mother would tell me that people are flawed and I should be lenient with them.”

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Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with…

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My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love…

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I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can…

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“My parents…They died today…They died for me. -Tris They loved you…To them there was no better way to show you. -Four”

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“The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want…

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“My mother wasn’t a fool,” I say. “She just understood something you didn’t. That it’s not sacrifice if it’s someone else’s life…

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“My mother told me once that, a long time ago, there were people who wouldn’t buy genetically engineered produce because they viewed…

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My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to…

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But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he…

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I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of…

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But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s…

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I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good…

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“And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God,…

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“I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn’t just beautiful in spite…

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I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn’t some sinister force dragging me toward death.…

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I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was…

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“And as for going into a bookstore and not finding a book suitable for your 13-year-old...maybe you should do some research before…

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“What makes you think you have the right to shoot someone?" my father says as he follows me up the path. We…

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“Should i even bother scanning the crowd for my parents? I could turn around and go back to the dormitory. Then I…

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“Standing alone at the railing is Four. Though he's not an initiate anymore, most of the Dauntless use this day to come…

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“I'm not going to pretend to know what's going on with you," he says. "But if you senselessly risk your life again…

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“My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life…

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“Just after my mother died, I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed…

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“A of my parents floats into my head the moment I close my eyes. Once when I was about 11 I stopped…

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You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.

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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid.…

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Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find…

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Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry…

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She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

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“My mother was from here. I can feel her in the walls, in the air. I can feel her settled inside me,…

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Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I…

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“was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of…

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My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction…

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Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with…

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“And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've…

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